tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2009 Issue 13

ENROLLMENT FORMS: 3 Mistakes Could Derail Your Medicare Enrollment

Watch your timing: New transmittal indicates that CMS will immediately return your application if you apply too early. As if the new Medicare enrollment process wasn't confusing enough, CMS has revised its written rules on submitting your CMS-855 enrollment application. According to new transmittal 292, dated June 12, CMS lists over a dozen mistakes that providers might make that would cause their carrier to immediately return their enrollment application. Most of the reasons, including an unsigned CMS-855 or a stamped signature on the form, are old news to practices who already knew not to make these errors. However, CMS...

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